The MacPorts Project Official Homepage

The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing,
and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the
OS X operating system. To that end we provide the command-line driven MacPorts software package under a BSD 3-Clause License, and through it easy access to thousands of ports
that greatly simplify the task of compiling and installing open-source software on your Mac.

We provide a single software tree that attempts to track the latest release of every software title (port) we distribute,
without splitting them into “stable” Vs. “unstable” branches, targeting mainly the current OS
X release (OS X 10.10 Yosemite) and the immediately previous two (OS X 10.9 Mavericks and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion).
There are currently 22916 ports in our tree, distributed among 84 different categories, and more are being added on a regular basis.

Getting started

For information on installing MacPorts please see the installation section of this site and
explore the myriad of download options we provide and our base system requirements.

Getting involved

There are many ways you can get involved with MacPorts and peer users, system administrators & developers alike.
Browse over to the “Contact Us” section of our site and:

Explore our mailing lists, either if it is for some general user support or to
keep on top of the latest MacPorts developments and commits to our software repository.

Check out our Support & Development portal for some bug reporting and live
tutorials through the integrated Wiki server.

Or simply come join us for a friendly IRC chat if you wish for more direct contact
with the people behind it all.

If on the other hand you are interested in joining The MacPorts Project in any way, then don't hesitate to contact the
project's management team, “PortMgr”, to explain your particular interest
and present a formal application. We're always looking for more helping hands that can extend and improve our ports tree
and documentation, or take MacPorts itself beyond its current limitations and into new areas of the vast software packaging
field. We're eager to hear from you!

Browse over to our generous landlord's homepage, Mac OS Forge, for information
on other related projects.